W&M Researchers Win Best Paper Award

Ningfang Mi, Giuliano Casale, and Evgenia Smirni, together with Lucy
Cherkasova (HP Labs) won the best paper award at the ACM/IFIP/USENIX
9th International Middleware Conference (Middleware'08), Leuven,
Belgium, 2008, for the paper titled "Burstiness in Multi-Tier
Applications: Symptoms, Causes, and New Models." Middleware is one of
the premier conferences in middleware research and technology. The
broad scope of the conference covers the design, implementation,
deployment, and evaluation of distributed systems platforms and
architectures for future distributed computing environments.